The Complete Edition of Therapeutic Fasting: Soma. Anima. Pnevma.

A comprehensive, interdisciplinary work on therapeutic fasting, built at the meeting point of science, clinical experience, tradition and spiritual life. More than two volumes, this edition is an extensive work of research and synthesis on the relationship between food, body, mind, consciousness and meaning. Volume I – SOMA. ANIMA. explores the biological architecture and the inner geography of fasting (the body, metabolism, illness, prevention and the inner life). Volume II – PNEVMA. goes deeper into the phronema: consciousness, discernment and inner freedom. Together, the two volumes offer a complete perspective on therapeutic fasting: from biology to consciousness, from physiological mechanisms to the inner transformation of the person.

Two volumes. One work. The complete path of fasting: from biology to consciousness.

• premium hardback edition;
• over 2,000 pages;
• an extensive bibliography;
• over 600 studies analysed;
• thousands of footnotes;
• research carried out over several years;
• rigour, discernment and direct experience. This work was not designed as a quick read, but as a tool for study, reflection and returning to, meant to stay active in the reader’s life for a long time. VOLUME I SOMA. ANIMA. The biological architecture and inner geography of fasting A large hardback volume of 1,296 pages, dedicated to the scientific and therapeutic foundations of fasting. Fasting is analysed as an adaptive metabolic state, not as starvation: with effects on autophagy, inflammation, insulin sensitivity, the microbiome, brain health and biological reserve. The work brings together contributions from neuroscience, metabolism, physiology, psychology and integrative medicine, in a broad, documented and critical construction. A book for those who want to understand seriously what happens in the body and in the psyche when fasting is practised with rigour, caution and discernment. VOLUME II PNEVMA The wisdom of fasting. Rising in consciousness A hardback volume of 1,000 pages about fasting as a path of clarity, discernment and inner freedom. Here, fasting is no longer seen only as an intervention on the body, but as the work of the whole person: mind, heart, will, body and spirit. The volume explores the phronema, watchfulness (nepsis), the hunger for God, the struggle with the passions, the hygiene of the mind and the spiritual meaning of food. In dialogue with Scripture, the Holy Fathers, contemporary psychology and ascetic experience, PNEVMA offers a deep reflection on modern man and his need for inner reordering.